 Here are this month's Economic Development updates! Here’s the TL;DR of this month's issue:
Get ready for the 3rd Annual Fremont Restaurant Week, proudly sponsored by Fremont Bank and organized in partnership with the Fremont Chamber and Yelp East Bay. From March 21-30, 2025, nearly 60 restaurants will showcase their culinary talents ranging from fine dining Japanese course dinners, cider and slider pairings, to new banana coffee lattes. This event is a chance to support local businesses – whether you're discovering a new favorite eatery or revisiting old haunts, your patronage plays a crucial role in sustaining Fremont's vibrant dining scene. Be sure to subscribe to our Restaurant Week newsletter and Instagram @choosefremont for the latest updates!
Last week, we hosted the inaugural Small Business Digital Marketing Bootcamp at the Fremont Downtown Event Center. This free two-day event helped small business owners enhance their digital marketing skills, focusing on website content, SEO, Email and SMS/Text marketing, social media engagement, organic growth, and much more to attract and retain customers.
The event was a huge success, with over 375 local business owners in attendance! A special thanks to our partner Jives Media for sharing their expertise and to Fremont Bank for sponsoring the event.
Whether business owners in attendance were new to to digital marketing or an experienced pro, the bootcamp provided valuable strategies to strengthen their online presence, engage with customers, and build loyalty. We’re proud to support local small businesses and are excited to keep helping them thrive in today’s competitive market.
To stay in the loop about other small business opportunities, please be sure to follow the Economic Development Department’s Instagram account! If you couldn't attend the event, don't worry – we'll be sharing a video recording on our website shortly.
 
Get ready for an insightful evening at the 2025 Silicon Valley Outlook, hosted by The Registry at Fremont’s Downtown Event Center on March 6. This premier event will feature industry leaders sharing expert perspectives on the regional economy, commercial real estate trends, and bold predictions for the future. Enjoy light refreshments, networking opportunities, and the chance to connect with Fremont City staff and elected officials. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to stay ahead in Silicon Valley.
Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025
Location: Fremont’s Downtown Event Center, 3500 Capitol Ave, Fremont, CA 94538
What was recently just a theoretical exercise in academia and sci-fi novels, quantum computing is now being recognized as a new paradigm underpinning the future of computing. Quantum computing is a new type of computation that leverages the principles of quantum physics where two states of being exist simultaneously. Through these highly complex machines, computation can occur in orders of magnitude faster than the today’s fastest supercomputers. With its 90K square foot Fremont Quantum Computing Fab, Rigetti Computing is at the cutting edge of this technology, building both the quantum computers and the superconducting quantum processors that power them with increasing accuracy.
Recently, Fremont-based Quanta Computing announced a partnership with Rigetti, with both companies investing $100M over the next 5 years to advance superconducting quantum technologies. Fremont stands to benefit directly from this announcement.
After being acquired as a subsidiary of Taiwanese electronics conglomerate Wistron, Fremont-based Alpha EMS recently leased 126,000 square feet at 4211 Starboard Drive, nearly tripling its Fremont manufacturing capacity. The ED team had an opportunity to tour the new facility and discuss growth plans with the company’s leadership. Parent company Wistron plans to invest considerable resources to building out a premier manufacturing operation in Fremont, including adding additional power to support customer demands for AI hardware. Fremont continues to lead the way in California’s manufacturing renaissance.
In another major milestone of Downtown Fremont's growth, The Tolman - a 240-unit mixed-used project by MIG Real Estate - has started moving in its first residents. The project also has 5,700 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and is actively leasing for new ground-floor retail tenants.
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